Video ads for the rest of us? In twelve seconds?

I was tremendously curious about the new site (service?) 12seconds.tv and got my alpha invitation yesterday. So, of course, I had to try out putting a job ad into a 12 second spot. It isn't easy!

On the positive side, if you take a little care and script out what you are going to say, it's definitely possible to say something far more clever than what I was able to come up with here. But with a professional quality camera and microphone it could actually be pretty awesome. In the staffing world where requirements change so frequently, though, it's entirely possible that a short, disposable video clip could be used to sell what's cool about a project or job... enough to encourage someone to check out a web site and learn more.

On the really positive side, the site integrates fully with Twitter. And I've got Twitter fed into my Plaxo and FriendFeed accounts, so distribution is really easy.

Account setup was fast, the service is free, and I was able to attempt multiple takes to my heart's content with the generous user interface. Even better, I can tag the results... definitely tech job posting applications for this baby. I was also considering using it at work to take short interviews of employees and why they like to work at my company.

Anyhow, without further to do, here's my job ad:


Redpoint Technologies is now hiring Java software engineers on 12seconds.tv

I think this qualifies as my first ever video blog attempt (my Jobing spots don't count since a professional did those). The company I'm referring to is Redpoint Technologies, one of the SPR family of companies based in Chicago.